The end of 8th grade

Our school had its 8th grade promotion ceremony today. It totally rocked. I got several awards throughout this year.

The Official Certificate of Promotion

The Most Inspirational (for middle school in general)

I Rock Totally Award (for nearly aceing every test in science)

A in both Language Arts and American Studies

Coaches Award (for Varsity soccer, in which the coach nominates someone from the team)

and my two favorite would have to be

4.0 GPA

and

The Lifetime Acheivement Award for 2009 (this was really cool; it was for PE and only three kids got it. Pretty gnarly, huh?)


Neal got Athlete of the Year for 6th grade. I remember getting that in 7th grade. I was a Teacher Assistant for gym, so I helped set up the gym for PE and also played with some of the kids. I made a lot buudies in the 6th grade class. Overall, this and my soccer season were the highlight of this year. Soccer was INSANE fun. I broke the curse of never winning and actually won two games out of ten. The team that kicked our butts last year was the one we whooped twice.


Overall I had the BEST year of my life in 2008-09. Besides some of the worst things (my knee and surgery) I had some of the best times. I made a variety of friends instead of just a few. I've been a "floater" all year and hung out with all the different groups, so I made a lot of cool friends. I don't really have a group of BFFs, but its still cool.


Bryan Adams wrote a song called Summer of '69. I think it applies to my life, since this year really has been the best year of my life, and I think I'll call these next three months the SUMMER OF '09.
After that I've got a bright future ahead of me in high school and hopefully I picked the right classes, because I've got some big dreams (wink, wink <3)